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...There has appeared on the world scene [a] Shakespearean Shylock, revengeful, unmerciful, insatiable in his greed. . . . There never was a Marshall Plan but there was a Shylock Plan. . . . From the moment of his speech, dollars and only dollars have served as the gigantic bait ... for ... the western section of Europe...
...convention was a furious reviling of U.S. aims in the world. Samples of the U.E.'s Red-eyed views: "The Government . . . has fallen under the control of Big Business. . . . By international Redbaiting and war scares they try to frighten us into patience under their extortionate greed. ... [It is] the policy of the trusts to re-establish a reactionary Germany as economic dictator over Europe. We declare to the people of the world that we will not . . . burn them alive with atom bombs to enforce the re-establishment of international monopolies...
...group of ex-slaves who are trying to hold on to Civil War land grants on an island off the Georgia coast. Without money or political know-how, and bedeviled at every turn by villainous planters, the Negroes doggedly stick to their freedom-loving principles as the forces of greed move in to destroy them...
...Philip Wylies, the Cassandras, the Twentieth Century prophets of doom ceaselessly cry out in the wilderness of materialism. And well might they wail, for the instances of greed, ignorance, needless poverty, waste, hunger, violence, falsehood, hypocrisy, and half-truth are so plentiful that merely to enumerate them would be a Sisyphean labor. But the black gulf of pessimism is not the place to seek the understanding, the patience, the faith that is required by a generation that hopes to bequeathe a world at least somewhat better than one to inherited. Things as they are appear much less disheartening if viewed...
Phantom Gold: A dreary recital of the greed that consumes a Tobacco Road-like family when mineral deposits on their worn-out farm bring them big money...